New House!

It's been a very busy couple of weeks.  We had my birthday, which turned into a bit of a disaster, since I was sent home from work for having a focal seizure.  I ended up being off for the entire week for focal seizures, followed by 4 days of exhaustion, when I couldn't even get out of bed.  I eventually made it back to work for the final week of summer school, which was fun.  The kids are lovely and it's a nice way to spend a morning.

We also had Dad's birthday.  He and Mum were camping, so Matt and I had the house to ourselves for a week, which was quite nice.

Now, i've just finished my first week off since February half term, and it's been an exhausting, but exciting one.  We finally completed on our house and got the keys on Monday.  We (mostly Matt and Dad) have done so much of the heavy duty stuff.  Mum's been amazing with the cleaning, and Matt's parents joined us for a few days this week, so Tony has been great too.  I've been doing the online work, because I can't do any of the heavy lifting or be around the dust that's coming off the walls too much.  I'm pretty useless in this situation really.  I can keep everyone supplied with tea and cakes and that's about it!

Anyway, here are some photos of the house as it was on Monday...

And a few from Tuesday after we had got started on the wallpaper stripping...

More house progress photos to follow soon!

 

Matt's Birthday

It's been a rather busy couple of weeks!

Summer school is now half way through and even though i'm only doing 8.30-1.30 every day, it is rather taking it out of me, I must admit.  It might have something to do with being 15 weeks pregnant, or perhaps something to do with the 30 + degrees heat of the last week or so, or maybe just the fact that entertaining 16, 6-10 year olds is hard work even on the best of days.  I'm glad i'm working the mornings, because the kids are all fresh and enthusiastic.  I did one afternoon, after swapping with another member of staff and those same lovely kids had turned into nightmares!

The kitties have been having some time outside, exploring their 'Luxury Cat Enclosure' and the garden in general.  They seem to be quite nervous of being outside but are definitely curious about the garden and happy to spend a few minutes outside every day seeing what's going on.

Matt keeps taking photos of Snowball and I taking our afternoon naps... 

They are pretty funny, I guess...

We went to stay with Matt's parents for the weekend of his birthday.  We had a BBQ with his Gran and Aunt and Cousin and we were able to tell them about the baby, which was really nice.

I took Matt's birthday, which was a Monday off from work so that we could drive back home at a leisurely pace.  We stopped at the Swan pub in Lyndhurst for a delicious lunch on the way.